Why are some Australian place names double barrelled? ie Wagga Wagga, Bungle Bungles? Please feel free to add to the list.

There are languages where the plural is expressed by repeating the word for the singular.

its aboriginal aboriginal

>>its aboriginal aboriginal

yes, I don’t know any other groups that use a deliberate stutter.

Indonesian/Malay pluralises by doubling up.

>>>Indonesian/Malay pluralises by doubling up.

Yes but do they use it for a place name where there is only one location?

Not really. But the doubling probably refers to some attribute of the place, rather than the place itself.

It may be one location but the name means something plural; I think Wagga Wagga means “water birds” or something.

bob(from black rock) said:

yes, I don’t know any other groups that use a deliberate stutter.

Doubling up is also used in Chinese.

Sorry, Wagga Wagga means “place of many crows”.

I knew it was bird- related.

D A, perhaps Wagga is a crow, so Wagga Wagga means more than one Crow?

and it’s only other vets would understand.

grabs knee

>>Why are some Australian place names double barrelled?

Like Snowtown?

golf clap

>>>golf clap

Thanks D A, the “penny hadn’t dropped for me until you posted that.

Indonesian/Malay pluralises by doubling up.
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And the English use it for the onenessness.

ATM machine…

Pin number…

Divine Angel said:

Sorry, Wagga Wagga means “place of many crows”.

I knew it was bird- related.

Not ‘crows, crows’, which is taken to mean ‘place of many crows’?

There’s a town in Vic called Wallan Wallan, which is understood to mean ‘windy, windy’.

shrug

I only know what wikipedia tells me, but I think you’re right.

wookiemeister wookiemeister

King Henry the II…

OTTOMH -

Bogga Bogga
Bong Bong
Book Book
Boonoo Boonoo
Min Min
Booroon Booroon
Booti Booti
Mitta Mitta
Moon Moon
Bungle Bungle
Multi Multi
Bung Bung
Mut Mut
Never Never
Ni Ni
Coola Coola
Daddah Daddah
Pun Pun
Doon Doon
Drung Drung
Dum Dum
Gin Gin
Turn Turn
Goodie Goodie
Goon Goon
Goonoo Goono
Wee Wee
Weedin Weedin
Whian Whian
Itali Itali
Wog Wog
Ya Ya
and of course..
Woy Woy (the world’s only above-ground cemetery)

More -

http://www.waggawaggaaustralia.com.au/area_double.asp

the min min light

Ian said:

Woy Woy (the world’s only above-ground cemetery)

Not sure if that is an in joke that went over my head but there are above ground cemetrys all over the world. People even have the smoked and dried ancestors living up in the roof.

>>>Woy Woy

That’s where Spike Milligoon was born.

>>That’s where Spike Milligoon was born.

‘e were born in Poona, India.

His parents settled in Woy Woy when they emigrated to Australia.

>>His parents settled in Woy Woy when they emigrated to Australia.

OK ta.

Did he die in Australia and is he buried in an above ground cemetry?

He was mad anyway.

Also that simpson man man…

Homo sapiens sapiens.

I work in an above ground cemetary.

The UNE…

>>Did he die in Australia and is he buried in an above ground cemetry?

He allegedly has on his tomb stone, “See I told you I was ill” and that this is not an original epitath.

Skunkworks said:

Ian said:

Woy Woy (the world’s only above-ground cemetery)

Not sure if that is an in joke that went over my head but there are above ground cemetrys all over the world. People even have the smoked and dried ancestors living up in the roof.

Woy Woy is full of old people :)

Divine Angel said:

Skunkworks said:

Ian said:

Woy Woy (the world’s only above-ground cemetery)

Not sure if that is an in joke that went over my head but there are above ground cemetrys all over the world. People even have the smoked and dried ancestors living up in the roof.

Woy Woy is full of old people :)

Ahh got you, a unit I worked at was full of old and bolds mostly broken ex viet vets that were used to train reservists. It was known as Jurrasic park.

Heh.

My year 9 science teacher was Mrs Leggett, known as Jurassic Leggy.

Woy Woy is a strange place.
I used to play in a pub there regularly.
There was a small L shaped stage and for various reasons (cowardly guitarists) I was right up front. Often the brawling bodies would be piling up right next to me and I’d be fighting off the drunks in front while playing.

Ian said:

Woy Woy is a strange place.
I used to play in a pub there regularly.
There was a small L shaped stage and for various reasons (cowardly guitarists) I was right up front. Often the brawling bodies would be piling up right next to me and I’d be fighting off the drunks in front while playing.

you mean you didn’t even have chicken wire to stop the beer bottles?

>>There was a small L shaped stage and for various reasons (cowardly guitarists) I was right up front.

I can see me now, out front smiling man.
(on the cover of the rolling stone)

I’ve been everywhere, man, I’ve been everywhere. I’ve been to Bogga Bogga, Bong Bong, Book Book, Boonoo Boonoo, Min Min, Booroon Booroon, Booti Booti, Mitta Mitta, Moon Moon, Bungle Bungle, Multi Multi, Bung Bung, Mut Mut, Never Never, Ni Ni, Coola Coola, Daddah Daddah, Pun Pun, Doon Doon, Drung Drung, Dum Dum, Gin Gin, Turn Turn, Goodie Goodie, Goon Goon, Goonoo Goonoo, Wee Wee, Weedin Weedin, Whian Whian, Itali Itali, Wog Wog, Ya Ya, and Woy Woy…..

maybe they stutter ?\

Maybe they just sound nice. Why is the fruit Paw Paw not just Paw?

Stealth said:

Maybe they just sound nice. Why is the fruit Paw Paw not just Paw?

Papaya.. paw paw.. it is about syllables perhaps?

So knock knock jokes are now just knock jokes?